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Pity and Fear and Hamlet
I’m still trying to claw my way back to a normal schedule of Great Books posts; I guess making up one day each week isn’t too bad. This week we pass the 2,500-page mark in Imaginative Literature. Also, with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Epictetus, Great Books, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mark Twain, Shakespeare
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Rationality, Instinct, and Miracles
At long last, I’m able to make this week’s Great Books post, after going close to a week without a decent internet connection. Here are the readings for this week: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Ch. 37-43 (GBWW … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Charles Darwin, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mark Twain
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“To Be, or Not to Be; That Is the Bare Bodkin”
It’s another Great Books Monday, and an acid test of my commitment to this project because I’ve had to lug several books on my family vacation. So far, so good! Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Adventures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Charles Darwin, Epictetus, Francois Guizot, Great Books, Mark Twain, Montaigne
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Happiness is a Form of Contemplation
Here we are on another Great Books Monday, and this week we’ll break that 8,000-page barrier I mentioned last week. That includes almost 2,400 pages of imaginative literature, over 1,900 pages of “man and society,” over 1,600 pages of science/mathematics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Mark Twain, Plutarch
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Bad Philosophy Leads to Moral Corruption
It’s Great Books Monday, and this week we’ll come within a whisker of our 8,000th page of reading since January 2011. Things sure do add up after awhile. Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Mark Twain, Plutarch, Thomas De Quincey
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How Would Aristotle Describe YOUR Friendships?
It’s Great Books Monday once again, and I’d like to note that in this program’s most difficult genre (for me), science and mathematics, we’re going to pass the 1,600-page mark this week. But if you’re just joining us, don’t despair; … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Lucius Apuleius, Mark Twain
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How to Stare Death in the Face with Style
It’s Great Books Monday, and this week we begin reading the granddaddy of them all. Get ready for the author widely regarded as the fountainhead of the Western literary tradition! The Odyssey of Homer, Books I-IV (GBWW Vol. 3, pp. … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Books, J.B.S. Haldane, Mark Twain, Plato, Plutarch, Rudyard Kipling, Tobias Dantzig
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Radioactive Shrews and BFF’s
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I expect most of you gentlemen are wooing more like Lucentio than Petruchio; I hope you ladies are receiving your gentleman’s attentions more like Bianca than Katharina! Here are the readings for the upcoming week: “Mowgli’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cicero, Curie, Dantzig, French Revolution, Great Books, Haldane, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Plato, Plutarch, Rudyard Kipling, Shakespeare, Tacitus
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Dung Beetles and a Townful of Liars
If you aren’t following along with the readings I’m posting each Monday, let me tell you that you are missing out on some great stuff. Here are the selections for the upcoming week: “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway (Vol. 2, … Continue reading
On Being Intelligent and Stuff
It’s Great Books Monday here at the Western Tradition. Here are the readings for the coming week: “Of Truth” by Francis Bacon (Vol. 10, pp. 346-347) “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” by Mark Twain (Vol. 2, pp. 346-386) The English … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Lamb, David Hume, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Jean-Henri Fabre, John Erskine, Lancelot Hogben, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Walter Scott, Xenophon
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